Advertising hood



Feb. 2, 1937. w. ALTMANN ADVERTISING HOOD Filed Dec. 16, 1955 In vehton' Patented Feb. 2, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE".

p} ADVERTISING HOOD Walter Altmann, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany Application December 16, 1935, Serial No. 54,559

I In Germany December 11, 1934 5y Claims.

This invention relates to advertising devices of the kind comprising a box-shaped hood-like body intended, and adapted to, be placed upon, and attached to, the top of such publicly accessible devices and apparatuses, as letter-boxes, automatic vending apparatuses, for instance for postage-stamps, and the like. My improvements in advertising devices of the above-mentioned kind relate to means for connecting the bottomportion of the hood-like body or casing of the device immovably with the top of the letter-box or vending apparatus or the like, said means comprising clamp-or hook-shaped projections provided counter to one another at at least two sides of the hood and being detachably connected with the same only in the interior thereof, said clampor hook-shaped projections engaging the projecting rims of the top-plate of the letter-box or the like so that no fastening holes in said plate or other contrivances for connecting the advertising hood and the letter-box or other carrier with one another are required and damages of any kind at the respective carrier are completely obviated. Anyhow, instead of. attaching the said clamp-or hook-shaped projections or fastening means positively, although detachably, to the two oppositely located inner surfaces of the hood walls, it is as well possible to connect them with one another, for instance by means of a turn-buckle.

In a preferred constructional form of my improved advertising device the hood is bipartite and comprises an upper portion in which the main interior equipment, members, especially the electric illumination means, the safety-fuses, the switches etc., are housed and which is provided with the main advertising means that are preferably designed as exchangeable frames with transparent panes; this upper portion of the hood is generally, in the whole, always of the same construction, whereas the lower portion or socle of the bipartite hood which, is detachably connected with the upper portion for instance by interiorly located screws, is shaped in correspondence with the shape of the top of the device or apparatus which is to carry the advertising device. Also said lower portion may have at its front, as well as laterally, exchangeable frames with transparent panes showing advertisements and being illuminated by the illumination means provided for the advertisements in the upper portion of the hood.

Besides said transparent advertising panes in the upper and, may be, also in the lower portion of the hood, or in lieu of the respective advertisements, fields for the reception of official commupractical to equip the lower portion or'socle with a clockwhich, if desired, may be designed as'an adjustable switch-clock for the automatic switching on and 01f of the illumination device. .Instead of said clock, or together with'it, also other instruments of general interest, as, for instance, a barometer, a thermometer, or (and) :the like may be provided at the walls concerned, and instead of the advertising fields, or together with them, at least a part of the interior of the hood maybe used for exhibiting purposes. In so far as automatic vending apparatuses are used as carriers for the hoods, they may, for instance, also be such for issuing railway tickets, including platform tickets, and the like. a

The invention is illustrated diagrammatically and by way of example on the accompanying drawing, on which Figure 1 is a front-view of'an advertising hood designed according to this invention, a portion of the front-wall being broken away'and the hood being shown located upon the top of a public letter-box. Figure 2 is a sideview of the parts shown in Fig. l. Figure3 is a section in the line' A"B ofFig. 1 and shows one of the connectionsbetween one of 'the'ifastening clamps or hooks provided at the lowermost portion of the hood and connected with the bottom plate thereof. Figure 4 is a front-view of the top of a letter box and. of the socle of a hood located thereon, this figure showing a slightly modified constructional form. Figure 5 is a side-view of the parts shown in Fig. 4. Figure 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4 and shows the two fastening clamps or hooks connected with one another by a I turn-buckle, all as fully described hereinafter.

Figure 7 shows a form of modification with a hood fixed on the top plate of a letter box in form of a pillar, and Figure 8 is a top View of the fastening means of the hood on a letter box of the manner of Figure 7 Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the advertising hood comprises a lower portion or socle a and an upper portion 17' which is connected with the socle a by means of bolts and nuts I (Fig. 1) passing through superposed inwardly directed flanges of said members a and b. Within the top portion b are housed the illumination means 0 and at the front, as well as laterally, are frames holding exchangeable panes or fields d1 d2 bearing the advertisements.

The socle a is equipped with a clock f designed preferably as a time-switch, and there are, furthermore, frames with exchangeable panes or fields g1 12. From the bottom of the socle, or

from the lower rim or edge of the same respectively, extend outwardly, at the sides of the socle, practically horizontal clamps or hooks which engage (Fig. 1) the likewise practically horizontally clamps or hooks h are screwed inwardly to the respective walls of the socle a, as shown in the Figs. 1 and 3. I top of the same is generally vaulted, and the shape of the bottom of the socle 1 is, therefore, accommodated tothe vaulted letter box top, as

shown in Fig. 1.

In the modified constructional form illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 the clamps or hooks in extend at first downwardly and engagethen the upper portion of the protective flange encompassing the reception slot of the letter-box. The body portion of the clamp or hook M is afl'lxed to the bottom surface of the socle win the manner shown at l1 in Fig. 4. j

In the further modification illustrated in Fig. 6 the two clamps or hooks'hz which are located counter toone another are connected with one another not by the, intermediary of the bottom of the socle and by bolts and nuts or the like, but by afturnl-buckle p,:passing over pins 1' fixed on the socle a of the hood.

I wish it tobe understood that my invention is not limited just to such a shape of the hood as is shown in the drawing merely by way of example, nor to just such an arrangement and combination of the inner and the outer parts (illumination means with their accessories, advertising panes or fields and the appertaining fastening means, shape of the fastening clamps or hooks and kind of the appertaining fastening means etc.) as shown likewise merely byway of ex In the case of aletter-box the the clamps or hooks are connected with one ana other by turnbuckles, as in Fig. 6, the turn-buckles may cross one another.

The Figures 7 and 8 show forinstance the manner of fastening of a hood a on the top plate 1' of a pillar-like letter-box kwith the aid of two pairs of clamps ha andh4 forming a cross to each other, each pair of these clamps is connected and drawn together with screws'si', s2 respectively.

I claim: 1. A box-shaped advertising hoodto be placed upon, and connected with letter-boxes, automatic vending apparatuses, and the like, said hood comprising, Lin combination with its socle portion, laterally projecting clamps or hooks located counter to one another and so shaped as to be adapted to engage top portions of the respective letter-box .or other support, and means connecting said comprising, incombination with the socle portion, the shape of which is accommodated to the shape of the top of the letter-box or vending "apparatus etc. a top portion connected with said socle by interiorly located means andenclosing illumination means with their accessories, and bearing means adaptedto receive advertisements or the like.

5. An advertising hood as specified in claim 1,

comprising, in combination with the socle -portion; a top portion connected with said socle by means located within said top portion, illumination means likewise located within the top por-, tion, and exchangeable transparent panes bearing advertisements.

WALTER ALTMANN. 

